The Ridiculous History of Saturday Morning Cartoons, Part Two: The Fall of a Grift

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CLASSIC: The Attack of the Japanese Balloon Bombs

Picture this: It's late 1944, and you, like thousands of other people on the west coast of North America, have noticed bizarre, jellyfish-like objects floating through the sky. You call the local authorities, maybe even the Air Force, only to be ignored. You don't see anything ab ...  Show more

The Ridiculous History of Saturday Morning Cartoons, Part One: A Golden Age

In the economic boom of a post-World War II United States the sudden affordability of television fundamentally rocked the nation. From the 1950s on, millions of kids in America grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons... yet, as it turns out, these shows were often light on the ...  Show more

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